Re: [xml-dev] A seemingly odd question: What is XML?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@wendellpiez.com>]

Hi,

The question is meaningless unless we accept XML's own particular
distinction between  "tag" and "text". In XML World, surely the text
is embedded in the tags, which is why I agree with John Cowan. (See
Production 1 of the XML Rec, where 'CharData' does not appear, but
'element' does.)

But outside XML World, the tags are text as much as the text is -- if
not more so, to a class of strange creatures that may include XML
parsers, since the tags are the only "text" they know how to read.

Cheers, Wendell

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:03 AM, John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Which is correct:
>>
>> (a) XML is a bunch of tags embedded in text.
>>
>> (b) XML is a bunch of text embedded in tags.
>
> Both are wrong, but (b) is less wrong.

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